Chuck Culpepper
Award-Winning Sports Writer

The Virginian-Pilot
Friday, 3 Jul 1998
Section: LOCAL, Page: B2

Charles "Chuck" Culpepper Jr., who began his sports-writing career at 14 covering Bennett's Creek Little League games for the Suffolk Sun, has won a first-place award for feature writing from the Associated Press Sports Editors.

A Suffolk native, Culpepper is a sports columnist with the Lexington Herald Leader in Lexington, Ky.

Culpepper reported on local high school baseball and football until he graduated from Nansemond-Suffolk Academy in 1980.

After his graduation from the University of Virginia, Culpepper's career took him to the Cable News Network, the Suffolk News-Herald, the Los Angeles Herald Examiner and The National, a daily sports paper. He has been a columnist with the Lexington Herald Leader since 1991.

Culpepper is the son of Dick (Charles R.) Culpepper of Kitty Hawk, N.C. and Kay Culpepper of Chesapeake.

Culpepper Connections' Post Script: In April 2000, Chuck Culpepper left Lexington to become a sports writer for the Portland Oregonian.

Writes Sports Story of the Year

The Virginian-Pilot
Sunday, July 29, 1990
Section: Suffolk Sun, Page: 3

An article written by Suffolk native Chuck Culpepper was named Sports Story of the Year for 1989 by the Hearst Newspapers chain.

Culpepper, as tennis writer for the Los Angeles Herald Examiner, wrote the story last June from Wimbledon, England, as a preview to last summer's tournament. It was a 50-column-inch piece focusing on Michael Chang, the California teenager who had won the French Open several weeks prior.

The Hearst Corporation closed the 118-year-old Herald Examiner on Nov. 1. Culpepper, a 1984 graduate of the University of Virginia, was hired then by the National Sports Daily, which opened Jan. 31 in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles. He works in Chicago writing Notre Dame football and twice-weekly local columns.

Culpepper Ancestry. The ancestry of Chuck Culpepper is not currently known by Culpepper Connections! other than that his father is Charles R. "Dick" Culpepper of Kitty Hawk, NC and his mother Kay Culpepper of Chesapeake. If you know the identity of prior generations of Culpeppers, please let us know.